Most accommodating: City officials agree to
extend the permit for Occupy Charlottesville in Lee Park until
October 27, and waive the $25 fee. Previously, camping had not been
allowed in the city park.

Worst casualty of the sex offender registry:Edgar Lee Coker, 20, is arrested at an Orange County High
School football game for being on school property. Coker was
arrested for a 2007 sexual offense involving a 14-year-old girl,
who has recanted her story,
WINA reports. Coker served time and later graduated from Orange
High as a star athlete, apparently unaware his permission to be
there had been revoked. The girl and her mother, as well as UVA's
Innocence Project, are working to get Coker off the
registry.

Youngest alleged sex offender:Jonathan
Shifflett, 18, of Crozet, is charged October 18 with having carnal
knowledge of a child between 13 and 15, according
to the Newsplex.

More sex crimes with a minor: Jennifer N.
Heatwole, 24, of Waynesboro is sentenced October 19 to 12 months in
jail on two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor by
having sex with a 16-year-old Verona boy, the News Leader reports...

It appears that employees at Charlottesville-based Northrop
Grumman Sperry Marine will be facing another round of layoffs.
According to company officials, employees were notified on October
19 of plans to eliminate a total of up to 800 positions at the
company's Electronic Systems sector facilities in Maryland and
elsewhere across the U.S. by the end of January. The majority of
the job eliminations are expected to occur at the company's
Maryland locations.

"Eligible employees will receive details of the voluntary
separation program in the next few days with the voluntary
separation program to be completed by the end of the year," says
Alleace M. Gibbs, spokesperson at the Northrop Grumman
Electronic Systems sector headquarters. “Should these
voluntary efforts not fully address the staffing situation, we will
initiate an involuntary reduction to ensure our headcount is
consistent with...

Former UVA lacrosse player George Huguely was not in court for an October 26 hearing.

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In a rare agreement with the defense, Commonwealth's Attorney
Dave Chapman said he'd like a November 7 hearing on motions
concerning the medical records of slain UVA student Yeardley Love
closed. Attorneys for alleged killer George Huguely have filed
motions seeking Love's medical records and were in Charlotesville
Circuit Court October 26 for a brief hearing.

"In light of the sensitivity of the issue, the hearing on the
merit of the motions should be in camera," said Chapman. 'We need
to do anything to minimize the information out there in order to
have an impartial jury from this community."

"We want everyone on the same page to avoid multiple hearings,"
said defense attorney Rhonda Quagliana, in anticipation that the
prosecution will file motions to quash subpoenas for Love's medical
records and prescriptions from health-care providers.

In a
hearing in December, Judge Robert Downer agreed Huguely's
attorneys could see records relating to her use of Adderall, which
was found in her blood, but would not allow "a fishing
expedition."

Circuit Court Judge Edward Hogshire said the November 7 hearing
will determine what is being sought and why, and whether the
hearing should be closed or in open court.

The former CourtTV network, now called In Session, has filed a
request to put three cameras in the courtroom. Huguely's attorneys
ask that moti...

Justine and Eric had asked Justine's parents for a $45,000 or $50,000 loan before their wedding so that Eric could start up a poured concrete wall business, Steve Swartz testified.

Abshire family

In a secretly taped conversation with Justine's father, Steven Swartz, Eric Abshire admitted to having sex with a woman between Justine's death and her funeral.

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We were best of friends, testified Justine's younger sister, Lauren.

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As the jury weighed its decision in the first-degree murder
trial of the Greene County dump truck driver accused of killing his
wife for a $1.5 million in insurance payout in a crime so shabbily
staged that veteran investigators suspected his involvement within
hours of her death, the parents of the victim wondered what their
daughter, a kindergarten teacher known as a homebody and animal
lover, ever saw in Eric Dee Abshire, a man with a history of
violence.

Getting to know him
Just arranging a first meeting with their daughter's new boyfriend
was difficult back in 1999, soon after Justine and Eric first met.
Both were working in the Lowe's home improvement store on U.S. 29,
she as a cashier, he as a manager. Justine's parents Steve and
Heidi Swartz say their repeated invitations for 1997 Western
Albemarle High School graduate daughter to bring Abshire along for
a family dinner went unanswered for months. In fact, the invitation
was never accepted, and the Swartzes relocated to New York before
meeting him.

It was only a visit back to Virginia in January of the next year
that they finally met Abshire when he joined Justine for dinner at
a restaurant in Harrisonburg, home of James Madison University,
where Justine had transferred and was working toward her teaching
degree. The Swartzes weren't impressed with the then 26-year-old
Abshire, describing him as "not very open, not outgoing," but claim
they kept an open mind– even a...